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Speaker 2: No song this week, Just disappointment. That's all we've got.
Speaker 2: Forty two to ten was the final score on Sunday
Speaker 2: Night Football. The Dallas Cowboys fall forty two to ten.
Speaker 2: I'll say it again to the San Francisco forty nine.
Speaker 1: Ers, don't say it again.
Speaker 2: The largest loss of the Mike and Mike McCarthy era,
Speaker 2: not only in terms of of point differential thirty two.
Speaker 2: But I don't remember a game that I was more
Speaker 2: excited about in the regular season as a measuring stick
Speaker 2: for this football team, and one that ended in such disappointment.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna talk about it here over the next
Speaker 2: forty five minutes. Glad you're with us here on Talking Cowboys,
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Speaker 2: morning to Hissaiah standback, Nick Harris, Nick, when did you
Speaker 2: guys land last night?
Speaker 4: We landed at about three forty eight am and back
Speaker 4: they're just again safe case and I think I rolled
Speaker 4: back into my crib right at about four nineteen. So yeah,
Speaker 4: win fornight, full night sleep, yeah, yeah, no kidding, no kidding, mornings.
Speaker 2: Did you get a lick of sleep on the plane
Speaker 2: or were you just.
Speaker 4: Now, I can't sleep on if I'm moving, I cannot sleep,
Speaker 4: But like I'm if I'm still, I could sleep on
Speaker 4: this podcast table.
Speaker 5: Like, as long as I'm.
Speaker 4: Still, I can sleep. But if I'm moving, it's not
Speaker 4: gonna happen. So yeah, I kick back and watch the
Speaker 4: Scream six. It was probably one of the worst movies
Speaker 4: I've ever seen in my life, and it just kind
Speaker 4: of it wrapped up the night perfectly, honestly sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't a good one.
Speaker 5: It at least succeeded my expectations.
Speaker 1: Oh, jab jab, let's talk about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, the expectations were certainly there. A loss in
Speaker 2: this game three and two. We're talking about this in
Speaker 2: a much different light.
Speaker 1: I think if it ended in.
Speaker 2: A competitive loss, and there's no moral victories in football.
Speaker 2: We've talked about that before, and I mean there is
Speaker 2: a moral victory and not getting embarrassed. And that's what
Speaker 2: happened on prime time television with the entire nation watching.
Speaker 2: San Francisco won in all three phases and they just
Speaker 2: got the job done from the jump, where Isaiah, the
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys did not, No, you didn't.
Speaker 6: We just sat here last week and we talked about
Speaker 6: everything under the sun.
Speaker 1: One of the things that we.
Speaker 6: Talked about was the last two times these teams face
Speaker 6: each other and how Dallas keep it one hundred. Dallas
Speaker 6: got punched in the mouth, physically handled, and everybody wanted
Speaker 6: to turn their attention towards the scores, as if the
Speaker 6: scores were the ultimate, uh, you know, dictator of the
Speaker 6: result on the field, you know, in terms like the physicality.
Speaker 6: And it's not always about that, right we say, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm always talking about the stat line, and it's not.
Speaker 6: You know, sometimes it tells the story. Sometimes it does
Speaker 6: it a lot of times it just adds adds a
Speaker 6: little color to what's going on. But the stat line
Speaker 6: tells one heck of a story from last night, the
Speaker 6: physicality tells one heck of a story from last night.
Speaker 1: And you didn't right your wrongs.
Speaker 6: The areas that you struggled in previously you struggled in again,
Speaker 6: And that is the more unfortunate aspect, even more so
Speaker 6: of the loss.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that you you can handle losing to a
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 6: Opponent, but when you've lost to the same opponent three
Speaker 6: times and you haven't corrected the things that you struggled with,
Speaker 6: that's when you have a problem.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it feels like you're going backwards. Yeah too,
Speaker 4: in a big way. It felt like four steps back yesterday,
Speaker 4: like not even two. And I don't see any step
Speaker 4: forward afterward. I mean, the run game was pitiful. I
Speaker 4: think Tony Pollard had his worst game as Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott, you could arguably say, had his one of
Speaker 4: his worst games as Dallas Cowboy. And we've talked about
Speaker 4: this offense, and I think I had specifically come out
Speaker 4: after the Arizona game and I was worried because I
Speaker 4: don't feel like this offense is built to come from behind,
Speaker 4: and man, did we see that yesterday. It's forcing things,
Speaker 4: it's trying to make that quick game. The entire game.
Speaker 4: And when you're down two scores and you're trying to
Speaker 4: get ahead with that methodical short movement, it's not gonna work,
Speaker 4: and it's gonna eventually force you to force things.
Speaker 5: And that's what we saw.
Speaker 4: And then by the end of it, the bend turned
Speaker 4: into instead of a break, just like an absolute incineration.
Speaker 4: It was just interception, tipball, another interception. Oh okay, and
Speaker 4: it didn't get a first out on this drive. Well,
Speaker 4: that's happened before, So I meant I was. I was
Speaker 4: disappointed my expectations, not only for you know, what this
Speaker 4: team could be, but just the season overall, coming out
Speaker 4: of yesterday much different than they were going into it.
Speaker 1: I was really disappointed. And Kyle heard me the whole
Speaker 1: entire game. It's true. I guess I get frustrated because
Speaker 1: the end.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I watched I watch a ton of film, right,
Speaker 6: and you know, we have a segment here during the
Speaker 6: week that I try to bring a little bit of expectations, right,
Speaker 6: a little bit more insights so people understand what to
Speaker 6: look for and what not to do against an opponent.
Speaker 6: And there wasn't any surprises, you know, like when you
Speaker 6: watch film and you have the analytics and you have
Speaker 6: everything that you need, and he's like, you go into
Speaker 6: a game, You're like, Okay, guess what, maybe just maybe
Speaker 6: you know, I expect them. What did I say last week?
Speaker 6: I said, in the first half, you can expect to
Speaker 6: see some things you haven't seen. But eventually they're going
Speaker 6: to settle into just because of the tree lance thing.
Speaker 6: And you face them through two times already, like they
Speaker 6: might throw some curve balls out there, there were no
Speaker 6: curve balls.
Speaker 1: I mean offensively, yes, they have some curve balls.
Speaker 6: They always are going to because their offense is that
Speaker 6: is just that good, right, Everything that they do offensively
Speaker 6: looks exactly the same, and that's kudos to their outfit
Speaker 6: out there. Defensively, my disappointment level from Dallas's offense against
Speaker 6: San Francisco forty nine ers defense.
Speaker 1: Was at all time high.
Speaker 6: It was at all time high because these were the
Speaker 6: most simplistic defensive looks that you could ever hope for
Speaker 6: in a professional football game.
Speaker 1: Cover one, cover two.
Speaker 6: Sometimes they took a robber on the backside safety and
Speaker 6: double team CD. You expected that, right, Everything that we've
Speaker 6: talked about through the film sessions and on here and
Speaker 6: everything else that we've said was going to be open
Speaker 6: was there. But yet you still are forcing things and
Speaker 6: we said, we also said on here that you can't
Speaker 6: keep this style of offense versus their style of defense
Speaker 6: and expect to be successful. Now you're going to have
Speaker 6: to take shots. You can't run West Coast offense, quick
Speaker 6: game route concepts versus press man versus road cover two.
Speaker 6: And yet we saw there, especially in the second half,
Speaker 6: how the ball just kept going where it should not.
Speaker 6: And that's where my frustration lies because that was a
Speaker 6: version of deck that we saw last year. That was
Speaker 6: the deck we saw last year when you're forcing things
Speaker 6: into coverages that you're not supposed to throw into. Right,
Speaker 6: I'm sitting there watching the game giving coverage calls from
Speaker 6: the TV cut right, and I'm like, can't go there?
Speaker 1: Ope went there.
Speaker 2: And just to back up Isaiah's point here, it was
Speaker 2: pre snap, Isaiah would say the look, he would look
Speaker 2: at the coverage, the throw would be made, and as
Speaker 2: soon as the throw was leaving his hand, he I
Speaker 2: could hear Isaiah just saying no, no, no, no no pick, nope,
Speaker 2: no no no no passperay cup.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it ends up being.
Speaker 2: And So when you're looking at it from that standpoint,
Speaker 2: and it's simplistic enough from a read quarterback wise former
Speaker 2: quarterback in the TV copy, imagine.
Speaker 1: What it looks like on the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's different if there's a bird's eye view versus
Speaker 2: field field level view. But if you're still able to
Speaker 2: see it like that, then why is QB one unable
Speaker 2: to do so?
Speaker 6: I don't, I don't know. I can't speak to that call,
Speaker 6: and I don't. I don't want to just to turn
Speaker 6: into a dack dragon.
Speaker 2: And it's not all.
Speaker 1: It's not all. Let's call it one.
Speaker 6: And I mean the things that I feel like I
Speaker 6: say on here, on any other platform, I whole hardly
Speaker 6: feel like I could stand behind I could see I
Speaker 6: see coach McCarthy every week.
Speaker 1: Okay, I see him. I shake his hand, I say
Speaker 1: what's up to him?
Speaker 7: Like I.
Speaker 1: He did not call a good game. He didn't. He
Speaker 1: did not call his best game.
Speaker 2: He admitted that too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe he did not call a good game.
Speaker 6: This They did not change what they had been doing,
Speaker 6: and unfortunately, West Coast offense is not complex enough to
Speaker 6: run the same things with the same looks.
Speaker 1: You have to mix things up.
Speaker 6: You have to mix up personnel groupings, you have to
Speaker 6: mix up motions, you have to mix up formations. You
Speaker 6: can run the same offense, but it has to look different,
Speaker 6: and it didn't look different. There weren't enough wrinkles where
Speaker 6: these guys were soft. That was in the middle of
Speaker 6: the field, underneath, and you saw that on the drive
Speaker 6: that Dallas was successful. Where was the ball going dumped
Speaker 6: down little hitch under middle on the middle right, taking
Speaker 6: with the defense, Taking with the DEFENSEI give this was
Speaker 6: a bend, but don't break defense when they're playing too
Speaker 6: high safety, when they're playing one high safety.
Speaker 1: Take your shots.
Speaker 6: The times where Dallas took their shots, the balls were bad,
Speaker 6: timing was off protection. Something was always wrong right, And
Speaker 6: that's been the story this year when they've tried to
Speaker 6: push the ball down the field. But I just felt
Speaker 6: like there were plenty of opportunities, especially when the game
Speaker 6: started to get out of hand, to work your way
Speaker 6: back into it if you understood what the coverages were.
Speaker 6: And I honestly think as bad as the stat line
Speaker 6: shows a running game, I don't think the running game
Speaker 6: was that bad. Matter of fact, I felt like the
Speaker 6: running game was actually relatively good early on in the
Speaker 6: game when you were actually giving it to your running backs,
Speaker 6: like they were moving the ball, but.
Speaker 1: Then they got out of it.
Speaker 5: I mean they had like two yards on the first
Speaker 5: four drives. I don't, I don't. I don't feel that there.
Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 6: Right, So the stat line and the stat line shows
Speaker 6: one thing. But as you watched the game, so had
Speaker 6: two carries on the first one exactly.
Speaker 2: One of them was a fumble, and it was more true,
Speaker 2: Like I'm just but I think that's that's part of it,
Speaker 2: win way. Yeah, it went away from it after the
Speaker 2: fumble saying oh, oh, we can't give the ball up.
Speaker 1: That's a ball security thing. That has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the yardage.
Speaker 5: It's it's still part of the run game.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's part of the ram.
Speaker 6: But guess what you had to You had to trust
Speaker 6: your guys that they're not going to do that again
Speaker 6: or put another back in, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: But like you can't if that was a positive play
Speaker 6: before the punch out, it was a positive.
Speaker 2: Play, right, they probably had like seven yards.
Speaker 1: That's a positive play.
Speaker 5: It was the most positive at that point, you know what.
Speaker 6: I'm saying like I'm taking like three four yards on
Speaker 6: the ground against against San Franz.
Speaker 1: I'm taking it. I'm taking it all day long. Everybody's
Speaker 1: looking for the big splash plays.
Speaker 6: We would love to see the big splash place Tony Poller,
Speaker 6: big splash plays.
Speaker 2: Pollard had three point six yards per carry at the
Speaker 2: end end of the night. Yeah, it wasn't like he
Speaker 2: did anything down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Either, that really was it?
Speaker 5: Like eight carries for twenty nine, yeah, eight for twenty nine.
Speaker 1: But I come out from a standpoint where you have
Speaker 1: to keep them even. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 6: You don't have an offense that you can just sit
Speaker 6: back and throw the ball. We've talked about that. I've
Speaker 6: talked about this extensively since I've touched down here, Kyle,
Speaker 6: that Dak's not I just sit back and throw the
Speaker 6: ball quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's just not his thing. That's not to say that
Speaker 1: he can't do it. It's not his thing.
Speaker 6: He is best when he has a running game, and
Speaker 6: you have to run the ball in order to have
Speaker 6: him be effectives as effective as you want him to be,
Speaker 6: and you just didn't.
Speaker 5: We talked about it after the Jets game.
Speaker 4: How the time of the time of possession allowed that
Speaker 4: defense to really settle in and have such a good effort.
Speaker 4: You could say the same about the Giants game as well.
Speaker 4: I looked up with twelve minutes to go in the
Speaker 4: second quarter, and by this point, I believe it was
Speaker 4: already fourteen nothing and the Niners had had the ball
Speaker 4: twelve and a half minutes out of the first sixteen
Speaker 4: and a half minutes. And look, I understand the defense
Speaker 4: gave up forty two points yesterday. I understand that even
Speaker 4: in the second half there were no adjustments made and
Speaker 4: they were just brock Party. Looked like Tom Brady for
Speaker 4: a minute, he was dicing up their zone coverages. It
Speaker 4: felt like a third and fourteen was a third and two.
Speaker 4: But I have to give a lot of this criticism
Speaker 4: towards the offense. Yesterday. The defense tried to hold their
Speaker 4: own in the first half. They forced a turnover after
Speaker 4: Tony Poller's fumble. Jordan Lewis rips Christian McCaffrey, amazing play.
Speaker 4: You know, you kind of feel like that's going to
Speaker 4: turn the tides. And then another three now and defense
Speaker 4: makes a stop to keep it. I believe it was
Speaker 4: fourteen to seven offense can't do it. Offense can't make
Speaker 4: anything happen out of it. They can't cut it to
Speaker 4: even fourteen to ten, and then San Fran goes down
Speaker 4: and scores before the half twenty one to seven. And
Speaker 4: then the offense, okay, another opportunity here, we can dive
Speaker 4: back into the game coming out of the break, three
Speaker 4: points and then another touchdown.
Speaker 5: And then that's where they just broke.
Speaker 4: I just when the defense is on the field for
Speaker 4: that long and then the injury starts sacking on top
Speaker 4: of that, that's when it becomes really difficult this offense.
Speaker 4: I feel like the loss is really built around that.
Speaker 4: It starts there. The defense definitely has some responsibility, don't
Speaker 4: get me wrong, but the offense, that's where the loss
Speaker 4: starts for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the defense had chances to switch the
Speaker 2: game and set the tone. I mean the first one
Speaker 2: was the opening drive, the fact that they had a chance,
Speaker 2: and we talked about the coin toss last week. What
Speaker 2: would you rather do? I would rather have my highly
Speaker 2: vaulted defense out on the field first have a chance
Speaker 2: to get the ball back, and instead they just let
Speaker 2: up a long linked The methodical drive left a wide
Speaker 2: open George Kittle for a touchdown, and it opened the
Speaker 2: game in a way of uh oh, here we go.
Speaker 2: Here's San Francisco again. One of the best offenses in
Speaker 2: football right now, working like one of the best offenses
Speaker 2: against our defense that's supposed to.
Speaker 1: Be one of the best in football.
Speaker 2: And then you had the chance to turn the tide.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the second quarter. You went down
Speaker 2: finally got points on the board, a big time drive
Speaker 2: from Dak Prescott. The play calling was good. They took
Speaker 2: what the defense gave them. They were able to work
Speaker 2: down the field. Cavante Turpin then takes the top off,
Speaker 2: goes over the top of the defense. A great ball
Speaker 2: from Dak Prescott hits Turpin for six. Boom, fourteen to seven.
Speaker 2: Feel pretty good at that point, Feel pretty good if
Speaker 2: your defense gets back out there with decent field position.
Speaker 2: It was from the twenty five. You got a chance there,
Speaker 2: But then you had the third down and four of
Speaker 2: the two penalties the unsportsmanlike conduct, yeah, suck, and the
Speaker 2: taunting penalty over the top from jay Ron Curse. The
Speaker 2: curse one I don't have as much problem with because
Speaker 2: I went back and looked at it. He was taunting
Speaker 2: and it's pretty clear and concise. That's a bad play
Speaker 2: from jay Ron Curse. I don't like the call on
Speaker 2: Donovan Wilson on the fact that they called it on
Speaker 2: jay Ron Curse too, but it was Donovan Wilson on
Speaker 2: the unsportsmanlike conduct. I thought it was a clean hit,
Speaker 2: great hit. TV copy thought it was a clean hit.
Speaker 2: All twenty two went back and looked at it. I
Speaker 2: thought it was a clean hit as well. I didn't
Speaker 2: like that, but then Curse over the top would have
Speaker 2: ruined it regardless. Yeah, either way, offense for San Francisco
Speaker 2: stays on the field. You drive down the field, you
Speaker 2: score twenty one to seven, and just deflation and nothing.
Speaker 1: They never respinded. Yeah, there was no punching back.
Speaker 2: You had a chance even after the third and four penalty,
Speaker 2: and the drive was kept alive to say all right,
Speaker 2: let's bow up here again and get a stop, and
Speaker 2: you didn't do that. So as much as I agree
Speaker 2: with Nick, I think it does start with the offense.
Speaker 2: And I've got more stats on the wide receivers coming
Speaker 2: up in the second segment. I do think the defense
Speaker 2: was very much so at fault on the fact that
Speaker 2: they had chances with you to take this game back.
Speaker 1: And they never did.
Speaker 4: Nine drives yesterday ended without a first down, nine offensive
Speaker 4: drives five to three and ounce and four turnovers.
Speaker 1: Six at the first seven in the first half.
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I mean so eight first
Speaker 6: downs total.
Speaker 5: San Francisco had eight when I looked up, like four
Speaker 5: minutes into the game.
Speaker 6: San Francisco had twenty five on the night. Dallas had
Speaker 6: an average of two first downs per quarter. Yeah, man,
Speaker 6: the average of two first downs record, that tells the story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 6: It wasn't It just wasn't good, man, No, it wasn't good.
Speaker 6: One hundred and ninety seven total yards.
Speaker 1: Total total.
Speaker 2: It's the third three interception game by Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: They were bad interceptions though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the tip ball happens, but we've talked about that before.
Speaker 1: But but he threw it into a back coverage.
Speaker 4: It would be different if the whole rhetoric around this
Speaker 4: offense was over the offseason was about not having those
Speaker 4: tip balls happen, you know, it'd be different. It was
Speaker 4: if it was like a one off that we didn't
Speaker 4: see six times last year.
Speaker 1: However, many times there were three bad interceptions. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: was interceptions. All three of them were. They were terrible,
Speaker 1: like terrible.
Speaker 5: All three of them were poor decisions too.
Speaker 4: It's not like there was even one like even the
Speaker 4: downfield ball, it was double coverage.
Speaker 1: Chucked up. He chuck it up there forcing chuck it up.
Speaker 2: Hope it was a hope.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a good sample size on this offense.
Speaker 4: I feel like we're five games in. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: think there's any excuse using or sugar coating at this point.
Speaker 5: Like this is what the product is, apparently what it's
Speaker 5: going to be.
Speaker 1: This offense, that's what's scary.
Speaker 5: And uh yeah, Texas Coast not looking great.
Speaker 4: South Padre is like the one beach I like kind
Speaker 4: of appreciate in Texas, and that's the quart I feel
Speaker 4: like that was that turbine drive yesterday.
Speaker 5: It was like, yeah, there's tough Padre.
Speaker 4: And then you get up to Corpus and you're like, okay,
Speaker 4: there's not a lot here, and then Galveus and you're like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, please, and then that's where the three
Speaker 4: picks happen.
Speaker 5: And then then you get to Bamont and you're like,
Speaker 5: oh my god. For everybody that did New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Listening, to this show in the coast on the Gulf
Speaker 2: Coast of Texas.
Speaker 1: Where were we apologize?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: I love the state of Texas, it's it's my home.
Speaker 5: I love this place. But we have some of the
Speaker 5: worst beaches on the planet. It's horrible. It's the one
Speaker 5: thing we don't have.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that more like Texas toast.
Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, let's let's dive into
Speaker 2: this offense, offensive line, back and healthy. It didn't look
Speaker 2: the way that you anticipated it either. Dak Prescott had
Speaker 2: pressure on them all day long. What went wrong up front?
Speaker 2: And why are the wide receivers struggling to gather separation?
Speaker 2: Let's talk about that right after this with more talking cowboys.
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Speaker 2: the game. Was what was the most disappointing side of it,
Speaker 2: what surprised you the most?
Speaker 1: And where do we go from here?
Speaker 2: Speaking on where do we go from here, the Cowboys
Speaker 2: had not had their starting offensive line their best five
Speaker 2: for six hundred and thirty days. Six hundred and thirty days.
Speaker 2: Last time the Cowboys had their best five available and
Speaker 2: starting in a football game was the wild Card round
Speaker 2: against San Francisco in twenty twenty one. Well, they had
Speaker 2: all five up there, Tyron Smith at left tackle, Tyler
Speaker 2: Smith at left guard, Tyler Biada Shitz center, even though
Speaker 2: he was banged up, he re entered into the game.
Speaker 2: Then you go from there into Zach Martin, Terrence Steele,
Speaker 2: Nick When you looked at the offensive line yesterday, I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't perfect upfront eye or I mean, what went
Speaker 2: wrong for them? Or was it just San Francisco's too
Speaker 2: good of a front seven.
Speaker 4: I will say as a as a prologue here, I
Speaker 4: typically go back and watch trench work a little bit
Speaker 4: more in my in my second watch, and I haven't
Speaker 4: had the opportunity to do my second watch yet, but
Speaker 4: on initial initial watch, seeing it with my own eyes,
Speaker 4: it didn't look pretty. We start on the offensive side
Speaker 4: of the ball, Nick Bosa getting home quite a bit,
Speaker 4: internal pressure getting.
Speaker 5: Generated quite a bit.
Speaker 4: I feel like Tyron Smith held his own for the
Speaker 4: most part, and before the offense just completely broke apart.
Speaker 4: I mean even Zach Martin had some opportunities where his
Speaker 4: guy got into the backfield. I mean, it was just
Speaker 4: it was bad up front, and I think that's kind
Speaker 4: of where things started with having to fall back onto
Speaker 4: the short game and making everything quick because it made
Speaker 4: this offense one dimensional. It only gave them one option
Speaker 4: moving forward. That defensive line was doing exactly what it
Speaker 4: has been doing since it's been constructed, and that's get
Speaker 4: to the quarterback quick, get into the backfield quick, and
Speaker 4: make things difficult for any sort of action in the backfield.
Speaker 4: So when that happens, that allows that secondary to be
Speaker 4: so much more aggressive. You talked about it last week, Isaiah,
Speaker 4: and that's what it's exactly what happened. And whenever you
Speaker 4: you forced things two seconds off the snap against an
Speaker 4: aggressive secondary, you see what happens. Three turn or three interceptions,
Speaker 4: one fumble obviously the fumble calls by Fred Warner and
Speaker 4: man Fred Warner gosh. But game of his life, and
Speaker 4: he's had a lot of really good games. He was
Speaker 4: awesome getting into the backfield, affecting the past game, the
Speaker 4: force fumble, it was.
Speaker 5: He was all over the place.
Speaker 4: Really really good player that they have on the second
Speaker 4: level there. I honestly last week I didn't factor him
Speaker 4: in enough. I didn't factor him in as much as
Speaker 4: I should have. But clearly Cowboys didn't either.
Speaker 2: I got one question from the three to eight and
Speaker 2: I'll throw this to you, Nick. Has Terrence still taking
Speaker 2: a step back or has he not just been as
Speaker 2: good as he was last year at this point?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I need to see a little bit more from T. Steel.
Speaker 5: I'm with you there probably three oh eight.
Speaker 4: Granted you're going against Nick Bosa, so I mean the
Speaker 4: challenge is stiff, but you were just a Player of
Speaker 4: the Year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you were just paid, you know, And it's
Speaker 5: a long term investment.
Speaker 4: When you're a long term investment as a tackle, you
Speaker 4: got to be able to stop those guys. You're not
Speaker 4: expected to stop those guys every single time. Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: going to get home. Yeah he's going to get a sack,
Speaker 4: He's going to get his But Nick Bosa was really
Speaker 4: he was really disruptive last night.
Speaker 6: What did you think about the offensive line? Well, like Nick,
Speaker 6: I have to go back and watch a little bit more. However,
Speaker 6: from what I saw just my eyes, and again, I
Speaker 6: don't want to put too much weight on this. I
Speaker 6: don't feel like Tyler Smith was his greatest T Steele.
Speaker 6: I think he was getting his shoulders turn too far
Speaker 6: to the sideline, and I think that's why Bosa had
Speaker 6: a short edge a lot of times. I could be
Speaker 6: able to give a little bit more detail. Obviously I
Speaker 6: have to to take a little bit deeper dive, but
Speaker 6: you know, holistically, I think they again, they just lost
Speaker 6: that battle on the trenches. And you can't lose the
Speaker 6: battle on the trenches against the forty nine ers, you
Speaker 6: just you just can't. Those guys are just too good
Speaker 6: on their front line. And once you once those guys
Speaker 6: consume your office a lineman, you can't reun the ball.
Speaker 6: And if you can't stop their defensive ends, and you're
Speaker 6: you're gonna have one heck of a long day. And
Speaker 6: that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this was a setup that we thought
Speaker 2: going into it that was gonna allow Dak Prescott to
Speaker 2: have more time to throw that There was gonna be
Speaker 2: more time for Dak to drop back and possibly force
Speaker 2: it downfield, or not force it downfield. You didn't want
Speaker 2: him to do that, so it ended up happening, but
Speaker 2: it looked like they were gonna at least have something
Speaker 2: downfield for Dak Prescott. Instead, it was quite the opposite.
Speaker 2: And I've got some stats.
Speaker 5: Here as long as I can find it, I think
Speaker 5: I actually.
Speaker 1: Went away from it. I'll go back to it.
Speaker 2: So it was separation. This is via next gen stats
Speaker 2: separation from.
Speaker 1: The wide receivers yesterday.
Speaker 2: On twenty six targets for both Michael Gallup and Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 2: Michael Gallup had an average separation of one point nine yards.
Speaker 5: They had twenty six targets between the two of them.
Speaker 2: Not targets routes.
Speaker 5: Oh righty did I say targets. I'm meant to say routes.
Speaker 2: Out of twenty six twenty six routes for Michael Gallup
Speaker 2: and twenty six routes for Ceedee Lamb, Gallup had one
Speaker 2: point nine yards on average separation one point nine under two.
Speaker 2: Ceedee Lamb had two point six, which was the best
Speaker 2: out of the wide receiver group. Brandon Cooks was the
Speaker 2: worst out of the three one point three yards of separation.
Speaker 2: You want to know where all three of those guys
Speaker 2: would have ranked on the pass catchers list for the
Speaker 2: San Francisco forty nine ers yesterday would have ranked one, two, four, five, seventh,
Speaker 2: and eighth out of the wide receivers. In the pass catchers,
Speaker 2: Kyle Uschak had four point three, so he had even more.
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle had more. Of course Brandon, I
Speaker 2: you o, Samuel even Juwan Jennings had five point eight
Speaker 2: yards per separation.
Speaker 4: George Separation broke a world record in that department list
Speaker 4: only two point eight.
Speaker 5: Oh really, but.
Speaker 2: Still, I mean, yeah, for tight end, it's really good.
Speaker 2: I will give credit where credit is due. Jake Ferguson
Speaker 2: had four point seven. So if there was a pass
Speaker 2: catcher you could rely on, it was Jake Ferguson. But
Speaker 2: my question now turns to why aren't these wide receivers
Speaker 2: getting open? And where can you fix that the quickest?
Speaker 5: Because the routes are simplified.
Speaker 4: Everything here is so simple, and we heard it over
Speaker 4: the offseason in a positive connotation, but I think it's
Speaker 4: starting to take a negative one. Everything's quick, everything's right
Speaker 4: across the middle. I'll say, I was going through next
Speaker 4: Gen stats last week, right and it has the really
Speaker 4: good five column look on where the targets have been
Speaker 4: for Dak Prescott through the first four games.
Speaker 5: He's only had I believe.
Speaker 4: It was four attempts right down the middle of the field.
Speaker 4: And I'm sitting here and I'm looking at this west
Speaker 4: coast style offense, where you know, you got a lot
Speaker 4: of routes coming across each other. Why you're not hitting
Speaker 4: guys in stride and it's waiting till everything is past
Speaker 4: developed and you're hitting guys more on the boundary. Doesn't
Speaker 4: give them opportunity to do anything out of it. And
Speaker 4: that was over complicated yesterday. Am I looking at it wrong?
Speaker 11: There?
Speaker 2: I know, I think you're looking at it right, which
Speaker 2: is why Isaiah is just kind of quiet over here.
Speaker 2: Does it just come down the timing then? Is it
Speaker 2: just timing?
Speaker 1: Is that all that's off? It's not. No, that's not
Speaker 1: all it's off.
Speaker 6: It's what guys have been subjected to running in terms
Speaker 6: of the route concepts. And to your point, the routes
Speaker 6: are more simplified, and that's okay as long as you
Speaker 6: mix up the the alignment of the receivers, as long
Speaker 6: as you mix up the concepts. Like the route tree
Speaker 6: is the route tree, right, There's some are more complex
Speaker 6: than others, but for the majority of the I mean,
Speaker 6: there's probably you know, sixteen to twenty routes an entire
Speaker 6: route tree, right, They've it's expanded since the origination of football.
Speaker 6: But uh, but I mean, for the most part, they're
Speaker 6: just not being utilized properly. You know, was it film
Speaker 6: Room last week or was it film one of those
Speaker 6: special edition?
Speaker 1: It was Film Room.
Speaker 6: We talked about the opportunities that were there against the
Speaker 6: forty nine ers defense and how you could take advantage
Speaker 6: of them. Drive concepts, shallows. I think there's one time
Speaker 6: where I think there's a whip route that was ran,
Speaker 6: that was actually completed yesterday. Those are man beaters, red routes,
Speaker 6: those concepts you weren't seeing it. You like to push
Speaker 6: the ball down the field if you're facing man and
Speaker 6: man coverage. You know, there's rollerways, there's comebacks, there's double moves,
Speaker 6: There's a whole lot of things that you can get to.
Speaker 6: But then again, the protection aspect comes into it. But
Speaker 6: one thing that this offense has not done successfully that
Speaker 6: they have done successfully over recent years has pushed the
Speaker 6: ball down the field. And that comes because of the
Speaker 6: standpoint of your running the West Coast. But that comes
Speaker 6: right back to it I said last week, the West
Speaker 6: Coast is not going to work against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: Like I knew that much, right, I knew that I
Speaker 6: was you're talking to somebody who ran the West Coast,
Speaker 6: like West Coast versus press Man and cover two. It's
Speaker 6: not it's not the jam unless you're running it out
Speaker 6: a bunch of formation, right, and you're running different spacing
Speaker 6: concepts and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: So didn't happen. Didn't happen?
Speaker 6: You try to run your traditional offense and you got
Speaker 6: your traditional butt kicked.
Speaker 4: I would I would challenge anyone to go back on
Speaker 4: the film last night and try to find at least
Speaker 4: ten routes. Run at least ten you can. You could
Speaker 4: choose whoever we could. We can combine them.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, shallow.
Speaker 1: There was a hitch corner was a hitch one route.
Speaker 1: I got five.
Speaker 4: There was a hitch across the middle to Pauler for
Speaker 4: a first down. I believe it was the first first
Speaker 4: down that was. That was like, oh, that was cool.
Speaker 4: It was across the middle.
Speaker 6: It was frustrating because the Nayden Kyle probably so sick
Speaker 6: of me. I was literally just true like saying, like
Speaker 6: what concepts work versus what coverages?
Speaker 2: Don't throw it at s land it gets covered too,
Speaker 2: gains covered two.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 6: I started talking about the dagger concept and when you're
Speaker 6: in a three point one versus Cover two, Like, this
Speaker 6: is how you find the hole in the cover two.
Speaker 6: Once Dallas got behind, I was like, this is these
Speaker 6: are the gaps in the defenses. This is what you're
Speaker 6: going to see, right, so you get out there pre
Speaker 6: snap breed. This is our alignment. Okay, boom, all right,
Speaker 6: it looks good, looks like it looks like two, looks
Speaker 6: like we're gonna get it. This is the route that works,
Speaker 6: and you don't get to it. Flip the script, go
Speaker 6: to the other side. Rock Perty sitting back to it
Speaker 6: all the time in the world. What route concepts do
Speaker 6: we see? Kyle, We run cover two the same exact
Speaker 6: concepts that I was saying will work against against them.
Speaker 6: I was just about to say that was working against Dallas.
Speaker 6: You know, it's the game's not It's not a complicated,
Speaker 6: at least against the forty nine ers their scheme, it
Speaker 6: wasn't complicated. Steve Wilks as good as a defensive coordinator
Speaker 6: he is. They did not get in their bag yesterday.
Speaker 5: They don't have to be.
Speaker 1: They don't have to They played very simplicity things.
Speaker 6: They just run it really well, and I think there
Speaker 6: were opportunities that Dallas just didn't take take advantage of yesterday,
Speaker 6: and it's really unfortunate. And I know, I know coach
Speaker 6: McCarthy's super competitive. I know he's probably harder on himself
Speaker 6: than anybody. I know he's going to get this thing corrected.
Speaker 6: And he has a wealth of knowledge and they can
Speaker 6: open up the playbook. They just didn't do it last night.
Speaker 2: It was frustrating in a number of occasions offensively. And
Speaker 2: maybe it's the play calling, maybe it's the scheme, maybe
Speaker 2: it's the confidence.
Speaker 1: Level and a lot of things.
Speaker 2: But right now, I wish we could answer all of
Speaker 2: these questions on the text line, by the way, and
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 6: That, and I don't want to just so I know
Speaker 6: we've talked about Dak, We've talked about I mean, so
Speaker 6: the offensive line, Like everybody has a pardon this. I
Speaker 6: just want to make that very clear. When you lose,
Speaker 6: everybody has to look in the mirror. Oh and like
Speaker 6: some of the things that happened yesterday, like people see
Speaker 6: the punch out from On Warner right on Tony Pollard
Speaker 6: and say, man, come on Tony Pollard. Well, in reality
Speaker 6: and when you go back and look at the play
Speaker 6: and you break it, down, you can go slow motion. Well,
Speaker 6: Warner actually had somebody who was actually assigned to him,
Speaker 6: and that person got to him unimpeded. That was Tyler Biyatis.
Speaker 6: Bayati's worked all the way up to Fred Warner grabbed
Speaker 6: him and he got thrown out the club, literally thrown
Speaker 6: out the club by a two hundred and forty pounds linebacker.
Speaker 6: Just threw him on his butt like he was like
Speaker 6: tissue paper and it went out. Proceeded to continue working
Speaker 6: his butt off and goes and punches the ball out.
Speaker 6: So somebody makes a play when they were actually had
Speaker 6: somebody assigned to them, the person got to them, that
Speaker 6: person didn't execute their.
Speaker 1: Assignment because that took place all of a sudden. It's
Speaker 1: a turnover, right.
Speaker 6: So when I say, like holistically, you have to be
Speaker 6: able to pull back and look at the entire picture.
Speaker 6: You can't just look at what was the end result
Speaker 6: of the play. Like everybody plays a part in this
Speaker 6: and that was a complete collapse last night, from the
Speaker 6: execution on the field to the play calling in the booth.
Speaker 1: And that goes on both sides.
Speaker 4: Yes, you talk about looking in the mirror, I think
Speaker 4: my mind jumps to three guys, Mike McCarthy and Dak
Speaker 4: are the first two, and I feel like they go
Speaker 4: with each other for reasons we've talked about on the
Speaker 4: show already. Mike McCarthy. They've got to complicate the play
Speaker 4: calling a little bit more. They need a little bit
Speaker 4: more multiplicity in this offense. There's got to be some
Speaker 4: juice added, because I can't honestly look at one thing
Speaker 4: that I've seen offensively so far this season it's like, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's juice, That's that's something you can build upon. I
Speaker 4: really haven't. I really haven't. Third guy's jay Ron Curst. Offensively,
Speaker 4: He's he's had a rough year so far. Yeah, rough year. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's that's definitely part of it. But but man, yeah
Speaker 4: he's had a rough part and honorable mentioned Cdee Lamb
Speaker 4: and in a season where he's trying to vibe for
Speaker 4: a top contract extension and to be paid as a
Speaker 4: top receiver in the NFL. When you're at a twenty
Speaker 4: one seven type game in the third quarter, you got
Speaker 4: to show up. You know, you've got to be able
Speaker 4: to get open and and you know, make it easy
Speaker 4: for your quarterback. And I don't. I don't feel like
Speaker 4: he did that last night. We've talked about body language
Speaker 4: on the show. It was at an all time work,
Speaker 4: all time low last night and the post game availability,
Speaker 4: he was still pretty frustrated.
Speaker 5: And and I am assure that and I saw that right,
Speaker 5: But like it's not all on him all that.
Speaker 6: I mean, this route is not what it's been right now,
Speaker 6: It's not what it's been in the in Kellen Moore's system.
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb's gonna have a lot more plays. It was
Speaker 1: built on, this was predicated on.
Speaker 6: This offense is not And to your point, yes, they
Speaker 6: have to open up the playbook and find a way
Speaker 6: to get your playmakers the ball. Ceedee Lamb and Brandon
Speaker 6: Cooks should be getting the ball, not freaking schoon maker.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no disrespect, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: I just said.
Speaker 2: That studio on third down and long while we're throwing
Speaker 2: a seam up the right Pashmark to schoon mad.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like, no disrespect, but like,
Speaker 6: come on, man, Like you have some highly talented receivers,
Speaker 6: use them, and there's so many ways that you can
Speaker 6: use them, but you just earned you haven't, at least
Speaker 6: to date, haven't got creative enough with your formations, with
Speaker 6: your motions and your ships to put these guys in
Speaker 6: matchup advantages.
Speaker 2: Third and six in the third quarter, still in a
Speaker 2: game that you can win, and you run the ball
Speaker 2: against press man right coming out of the gates. There's
Speaker 2: just so many plays. You can go back and you
Speaker 2: can circle and say why. I mean, that's it, that's
Speaker 2: just why. All right, let's take our second break. When
Speaker 2: we come back, we're gonna try and answer as many
Speaker 2: questions as we can, because I just counted them up.
Speaker 2: We have forty one texts.
Speaker 1: Thank you all.
Speaker 2: Since the show starts rapid fire, Yeah, we might rapid
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Speaker 2: lose forty two to ten to the San Francisco forty
Speaker 2: nine Ers in Week five. I said it last night,
Speaker 2: this one's a tough one to swallow. But the sun
Speaker 2: did come up this morning. There are still twelve games left.
Speaker 2: The season is by no means over all you know
Speaker 2: from yesterday is that there is a lot of work
Speaker 2: to do for this team to legitimately be considered a contender,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna have to win some big games before
Speaker 2: you can really give them the contender title again. I
Speaker 2: think that's where we're at right with this team.
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody else on your schedules is getting
Speaker 1: stronger too. It looks like it.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, if what we've seen so far this Jekyl
Speaker 4: and Hide type team. I think about the teams they beat.
Speaker 4: What have those teams done?
Speaker 5: Not a whole lot.
Speaker 4: You look at the remaining schedule. You got to jump
Speaker 4: around and go right back to LA next week to
Speaker 4: play the Chargers. That's a really good opponent. You gotta
Speaker 4: go to Buffalo, you gotta go to Miami, you got
Speaker 4: to play Philly twice. I mean, it doesn't look it
Speaker 4: doesn't look strong. I kind of talked about it last
Speaker 4: night in my five takes article, and I think I'm
Speaker 4: probably gonna talk about it Nick Knight quite a bit
Speaker 4: this week. The next fourteen days are going to determine
Speaker 4: a lot with what happens with this team. This team
Speaker 4: doesn't have an identity right now, and if they can't
Speaker 4: find it in the next fourteen days, and I don't
Speaker 4: feel like they will a really really good opponent that
Speaker 4: they're gonna have to turn around and face next Monday night.
Speaker 4: It's a really good opportunity about back. But it's also
Speaker 4: a really good opportunity to get stumped once again. And
Speaker 4: that's a and then you get the bye week, and
Speaker 4: I think the bye week, oddly enough, it comes at
Speaker 4: a good time.
Speaker 1: It actually works.
Speaker 5: It actually comes at a good time. Before the season started,
Speaker 5: I was like, that's a terrible draw.
Speaker 2: By week now you're like, wow, thank goodness, that thing
Speaker 2: is coming. Yep, all right, let's wrapid fire some questions.
Speaker 2: I'm going to bunch out of the forty five now
Speaker 2: it's up to like fifty five. Since the text messages
Speaker 2: keep rolling in nine zero three, two, nine eight, A
Speaker 2: lot of them are about Dak Prescott and your confidence
Speaker 2: level in QB one, so real quickly does your confidence
Speaker 2: level waiver or has it wavered? And where does it
Speaker 2: sit going into Week six?
Speaker 1: Keeping it real, Keeping it real?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my chest, you know me.
Speaker 6: My confidence level has always been pretty much the same,
Speaker 6: and my expectation of Dak has always been pretty much
Speaker 6: the same.
Speaker 1: I think what he's doing has been his issue.
Speaker 6: I don't think he's a peer drop back quarterback, and
Speaker 6: I think that he gets frustrated and tries to force
Speaker 6: things outside of skills. I don't think that he sees
Speaker 6: coverages very well, and I don't think that he's highly
Speaker 6: accurate when he decides to try to push the ball
Speaker 6: down the field. That's the Dak that I've been saying
Speaker 6: ever since Andy Dalden was here. It's the same. It's
Speaker 6: the same now, all right, And it's unfortunate, but that's
Speaker 6: been my stance on him, that he has to have
Speaker 6: a running game.
Speaker 1: He has to have play action. Yep.
Speaker 6: That's what Dak has to have for him to be
Speaker 6: uber successful, doesn't It is what it is, right, I mean,
Speaker 6: people could people are gonna shoot at it.
Speaker 1: That's fine. It is what it is.
Speaker 6: That's the type of quarterback that you have, So you
Speaker 6: have to work around his capabilities.
Speaker 5: I make this quick.
Speaker 4: This is what I texted in my group chat last night,
Speaker 4: and I have to be careful. Here's probably the only
Speaker 4: thing I could say about the group chat. I said,
Speaker 4: I've always been a Dak guy. I've never really gave
Speaker 4: into the hate. Tonight, I can feel my mindset starting
Speaker 4: to shift a little bit. And it's not to say
Speaker 4: that I'm hating Dak. Great, dude, you know that. I
Speaker 4: think that's not necessary. But I can see a lot
Speaker 4: of the points that are being made outside of the
Speaker 4: building and where the truth is lying within it. He
Speaker 4: hasn't taken over a game so far this season, and
Speaker 4: in two games where they really needed him to, he
Speaker 4: hasn't been able to do that. Because we've seen what
Speaker 4: Dak looks like at his best, and it's been very
Speaker 4: far from that early on this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the last time I can remember looking at it
Speaker 2: and saying, Wow, Dak is next level was twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: or no. Twenty twenty one going into the bye week,
Speaker 2: prior to the calf injury against New England.
Speaker 5: For me, it was twenty twenty before he got hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 5: before the injury, that was his.
Speaker 2: Best see, and that's kind of I've always been a
Speaker 2: Dak defender too, and we've I mean, we've always kept
Speaker 2: it real on the show, and we always do and
Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of times where I do
Speaker 2: defend Dak, and I will continue to defend Dak to
Speaker 2: a certain extent. But whenever you have games like this,
Speaker 2: and whenever you have the sample size that you do
Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty three, where it looks I hate
Speaker 2: to even say this because I don't even know if
Speaker 2: this is true, but just from the outside looking in,
Speaker 2: it looks like he is a completely different cerebral quarterback.
Speaker 2: His confidence level is almost nothing right now. And whether
Speaker 2: that's the change in system, whether that's the way that
Speaker 2: the game plan now structures around him, because I mean,
Speaker 2: like Isaiah said, you have to structure around Deck. He
Speaker 2: is your franchise quarterback. You have made that decision. Whether
Speaker 2: the scheme has changed something in that confidence level, it
Speaker 2: doesn't look like the deck that you saw in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty before the injury, or twenty twenty one before the
Speaker 2: cap injury, or even at times last year, whenever he
Speaker 2: could take over a game and throw the ball down
Speaker 2: the field, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: Number four, this year.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that from Dak Prescott in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean we can't doesn't mean that that can't happen
Speaker 2: and that he can't do that because we've seen it before.
Speaker 2: But there's got to be some sort of change and
Speaker 2: some sort of flit switch that needs to be flipped
Speaker 2: in order to get there, and it's gonna have to
Speaker 2: happen quickly because if not, you're gonna be exposed, just
Speaker 2: like you were last night on Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 1: I wish he's assistant.
Speaker 6: From what I've seen on film, He's gonna just like
Speaker 6: every other quarterback in this leagu're gonna have your good days,
Speaker 6: You're gonna have your bad days. Right, last night was
Speaker 6: a terrible night for Dak, but it was a terrible
Speaker 6: night in the sense of what he has struggled with
Speaker 6: in terms of his decision making.
Speaker 1: He went right back to it, amplified. Yeah, he went
Speaker 1: right back to it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: Everybody was all hype about the interception ratio and all
Speaker 6: this stuff coming to the game, and I was like,
Speaker 6: that's the system.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, that's that's just the system.
Speaker 6: Like you literally pick a side, you picked the right side,
Speaker 6: You're not gonna throw picks last night, he ignored that.
Speaker 1: He ignored that.
Speaker 6: And you saw what you ran into last year and
Speaker 6: last year, I don't know how many times we broke
Speaker 6: down on a film A lot you didn't. He just
Speaker 6: wasn't seeing coverages and last night coverages. There's certain routes
Speaker 6: that are just eliminated by the pre snap read press man.
Speaker 6: Dang can't run that.
Speaker 1: That sucks. Two, dang, can't throw it into that. That sucks.
Speaker 1: Let me go over here now. He ignored that.
Speaker 6: He said, Nah, screw that, I'm throwing it anyway. Pick
Speaker 6: throw it down the field.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 6: There's a safety back there with nobody on him. Pick
Speaker 6: decision making gets him in trouble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny that you say. It feels almost different
Speaker 4: surrebray for him.
Speaker 5: Well, I almost couldn't say that word. I'm surprised I
Speaker 5: could got through it. Yeah, I did.
Speaker 4: I thought about that last week actually during the Patriots game,
Speaker 4: because he was hesitating a lot early on. It was
Speaker 4: like it was like this, but like it didn't end
Speaker 4: up being negative in that game obviously, But something's in
Speaker 4: his head.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to sit here and theorize what it is,
Speaker 4: because that's a whole other man with the exactly We're
Speaker 4: not in his head. I'm not, but it's uh, something's
Speaker 4: going on there. Yeah, because it feels different than what
Speaker 4: we've seen. Yeah, even last year. It feels different from
Speaker 4: because last year at least he was confident in throwing
Speaker 4: the picks.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe the storylines got to him.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 2: And it's it's unfortunate because I do believe Dak can't
Speaker 2: get there. But we just he's got a long way
Speaker 2: to go, just like anybody else in this offense. Because
Speaker 2: it's like we saw said at the beginning of the show,
Speaker 2: it's not all on for. Nope, it is not all
Speaker 2: on four. And if you're putting it all on for
Speaker 2: you're not watching the entire game.
Speaker 1: It's an open mind.
Speaker 2: There's a lot to fix here, both sides of the football.
Speaker 2: I said it last night. I mean, there have been
Speaker 2: times whenever this team's been out coached in specific areas,
Speaker 2: and I felt like Arizona they were out coached in
Speaker 2: specific areas. I thought across the board in this matchup,
Speaker 2: they were completely out coached by Kyle Shanahan staff. Both offensively, defensively,
Speaker 2: special teams. San Francisco was a better team. They were
Speaker 2: a holistic, elite team as a whole sport. There's a
Speaker 2: long way to go for the Cowboys to be considered elite,
Speaker 2: to be considered contenders. We could be here for another
Speaker 2: forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: And break this thing.
Speaker 5: We could be here for two hours, I feel.
Speaker 6: Like, but you know what the positive, Okay, the positive
Speaker 6: is last night was a measuring stick game.
Speaker 1: It was it's early in your season. You know where
Speaker 1: you staying.
Speaker 6: You're not hoping, you're not wishing, you're not thinking, you're
Speaker 6: not assuming. You know exactly where you are as a
Speaker 6: team and as an organization right now. Make the changes
Speaker 6: that are necessary to put yourself in a position at
Speaker 6: the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Much better being week five than week fifteen.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, no doubt. That's the positive.
Speaker 2: And I mean there were a lot of injuries last
Speaker 2: night too, so we got a yeah, I got this work.
Speaker 2: Uh the we got a lot to talk about later
Speaker 2: in the week as well. We'll be back tomorrow. We're
Speaker 2: gonna take your calls tomorrow. Hit more of these text messes.
Speaker 2: I apologize for not being able to get to everyone we.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 6: I think we really do appreciate you guys being locked
Speaker 6: in and communicating and engaging.
Speaker 1: We're with you in this one.
Speaker 2: Cowboys Nation. We really are talking Cowboys Nation. We're uh,
Speaker 2: we're here with you.
Speaker 1: Nine am. Winter lose is what we do. Winter lose,
Speaker 1: Keep it real Monday. We kept it real.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, we uh tomorrow morning, nine am, John Michoda,
Speaker 2: we'll rejoin the show. We'll talk about that a little
Speaker 2: bit more as well, and then we'll turn the page
Speaker 2: on Wednesday and look ahead to this Monday night football
Speaker 2: matchup and a can't chance to.
Speaker 1: Rebound going in family reunion.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, a little bit of a reunion, a little
Speaker 2: bit of a reunion.
Speaker 5: Just just to see another bosa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the family reunion. Hey bro, let me tell
Speaker 1: you about this, oh man.
Speaker 2: All right, that's that does it for us here on
Speaker 2: a keep it real Monday for talking to cowboys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta, we gotta get out of here.
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